FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 3, 1999
Girls' 'C' team finishes season 13 and 0
Alumni Association helps student athletes
Dana Reid, representing the
Heppner High School Alumni
Association, presented a check
for $250 each to Shelly Rietmann
and Casey Ingraham, to go
toward
summer basketball
programs.
Shelley, the 15-year-old
daughter of Mark and Tami
Rietmann, was selected tor the
NBC Camps Girls Junior Tour to
the United Kingdom the last
week in July and first two weeks
in August. She was selected on
"athletic
ability,
personal
character and moral excellence,"
said an NBC news release. Over
700 athletes tried out for the
tours. Shelley is a freshman at
Heppner High School.
Casey, the 17-year old
daughter of Sally and Mark
Brosnan and Mike and Wendy
Ingraham, will play in the Hoop
Smart USA Annual Hawaii
Classics Tournament at Honolulu
Dana Reid, Shelley Rietmann and
Casey Ingraham
for 13 days in July. She was
nominated by Juan Elguezabal,
her basketball coach at Heppner
High School, and selected by a
committee
to
attend
the
tournament. She is a junior at
HHS.
Lady Cards defeat Falcons in final game
Heppner High School girl«' basketball *C team (left to right): front-Brett Barber, Julie Proctor; top row-
Jessica Gutierrez, Jodie Carlson, Shelley Rietmann, Kelsey Greenup, Paula Spicerkuhn, Meghan Bailey,
coach Keelie Keown. Not pictured are junior varsity floaters-Krista Adams, Sarah Eckman, Mindy Smith,
Jenny Patton, Lindsey Ward and San Juanita Elguezabal.
The Heppner High School girls'
basketball
"C" team has
completed their season with a 13
win - 0 loss record.
Led by first-year coach, HHS
math teacher, Keelie Keown, the
'C' team's schedule included
teams from lone, Weston-
McEwen, Pendleton, Pilot Rock,
Condon and Echo.
Coach Keown commented that
the team played "with a lot of
heart'" and had several closely
matched games.
Mustang girls clip Eagles to clinch tourney
spot
By Rick Paullus
Using great defense and clutch
shooting, the Heppner Mustang
girls’ basketball team clinched a
spot in the state 2A basketball
tournam ent by beating the
Wahtonka Eagles, 32-23, at the
Columbia Basin Conference Dis
trict Tournament on Feb. 25. The
M ustangs later played the
Sherman County Huskies in a
seeding game on Friday, Feb. 26.
Casey Ingraham and Jill Bar
ber got the Mustangs going, each
scoring four points to make it an
8-4 game. Brooke Boyer got a
stqal and lay-in, and hit one of two
free throws to give the Mustangs
an 11-4 lead at the end of the first
quarter.
Kathleen Greenup hit one of
two free throws to make it 12-5,
then Ingraham scored on a nice
pass from Barber plus hit one of
two free throws to make it 15-7.
After an Eagle free throw, Bar
ber hit a three-pointer to make it
18-8. An Eagle basket made it an
18-10 Mustang lead at halftime.
The Eagles scored four straight
to cut the lead to 18-14 before
Ingraham scored to make it 20-
14. The Eagles came right back
to score two quick baskets to close
within 20-18, before Jaci Hughes
scored and Boyer hit another free
throw to make it 23-18. Barber
then hit a jumper and a running
off-balance jumper to stretch the
lead to 27-18. A late Eagle bas
ket cut the Mustang lead to 27-20
at the end of the third quarter.
A free throw by the Eagles
made it 27-21 before Kim Pointer
hit one of two free throws to make
it 28-21. An Eagle basket cut the
lead to 28-23, but Amy Papineau
scored on a nice pass from Bar
ber to give the Mustangs a 30-23
lead. Hughes hit two free throws
with 3.2 seconds left to make the
final score, 32-23.
The Mustangs were led by
Ingraham with 11 points, eight re
bounds and three steals. Barber
had nine points, three rebounds
and two assists. Hughes had four
points and two assists. Boyer had
four points, while Papineau
grabbed four rebounds.
Statistics:
Heppner 11-7-9-5 32
Wahtonka 4-6-10-3 23
Heppner Casey Ingraham 5 1-2 11, Jill Bar
ber 4 0-1 9, Jaci Hughes 1 2-2 4. Brooke Boyer
12-4 4. Amy Papineau 10-02, Kathleen Greenup
0 1-2 1, Kim Pointer 0 1-2 1, Jessica Maben,
Trisha Adams, Ashley Ropp, Manssa McCabe
12 7-13 32. Three-pointer Barber
Wahtonka: Eagy 5 0-0 10, Zeigler 3 1-2 7,
Matherly 1 2-4 4, Caldwell 0 2-6 2, lew is,
Strantz, leatherbury 9 5-12 23 Three-pointer:
none
lone High School girls' varsity basketball team (L-R): Front- Managers Adrienne Swanson and Jessica
Krebs; Middle- Allison Halvorsen, Brandi Brantley, Salli McElligott, Shelby Krebs, Amellia Peck, Charissa
Gates; Back - assistant coach Duane Neiffer, Jeanette Brantley, Jeffifer Thompson, Nikki McElligott,
Connor Davis, Niki Sullivan, Kristina Powell, Camie Burright, coach Chris Davis.
The Lady Cardinals defeated
the Wheeler Falcons in their
final game of the season, 62-39.
Nikki McElligott was the lead
scorer with 21 points with Niki
Sullivan scoring 14 points for
the Cardinal team.
lone’s big quarter was the
second when 'the Cardinals
scored 28 points to Fossil's 12.
The score at the end of the first
half was lone, 41, Wheeler, 22.
McElligott led in rebounds,
assists and steals. She also
rejected three Falcon baskets.
Charissa Gates had six assists
and five steals.
HHS JV boys end season with two wins
lone boys’ JVs wrap up season
lone High School boys' JV basketball team (L-R) Adam Neiffer, Colin McElligott, Dylan Pettyjohn, Zach
Fabian; Back- Jeremy Rietmann, Adam McCabe, Steve Crum, Scott Burright, Cody Erickson, Jacob
Neiffer, Jeremiah McElligott.
lone hit the road again on
Saturday to Fossil to take on
Wheeler High School and wrap
up their basketball season. The
lone JV boys closed two
quarters, defeating the Falcons,
13-12.
Wheeler seemed like they
were going to cruise to a win at
the end of the first quarter.
leading the Cardinals 5-2. Zak
Fabian scored the only Cardinal
basket in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Dustin
Haguewood pumped in eight
points to put the Cardinals
within one point of the Falcon
squad.
With less than one
minute remaining in the game,
Jacob Neiffer canned the
Strategic planning
Grant proposals sought
The Morrow County School
District is again accepting
applications from high school
seniors for the Troedson Grant
Scholarship
and
former
Troedson Grant Scholarship
recipients.
Applications are available for
high school seniors through the
counselors at Heppner High
School, lone High School and
Riverside High School.
Applications are available for
former
Troedson
Grant
Scholarship recipients through
the school district office in
Lexington.
Deadline for
application materials to be
returned is April 16.
Those wishing to apply are
asked to contact the above listed
schools for the scholarship
information.
Lexington News
-¡-Roger Asher suffered a mas
sive heart attack on Feb. 27 and
had open heart triple bypass sur
winning basket giving, lone the
one-point edge over the Falcons.
Ryan Bennetto led the
Cardinals with six rebounds.
Dustin Haguewood was the lead
scorer with eight points.
Jeremiah McElligott, Steve
Crum and Adam McCabe each
had steals for the lone team.
gery. He should be home from
Bend sometime this week.
i
I
rescheduled
The Strategic Planning Meeting
to be held March 3 has been
moved to Wednesday, March 17.
The meeting location has been
changed from the Heppner High
School Library to the Forest
Service Conference room. The
meeting will be held at 7 p.m
and the topic of discussion will
be the establishment of goals.
Copies of the draft work to date
may be obtained at Heppner City
Hall, 188 NW Willow Street,
and the draft is also posted at the
City of Heppner web site at
wwwheppner/city.
Heppner High School boys' JV basketball team (left to right): front-Chris Bowman, Stefan Matheny, Cody
Bellamy, Michael McCabe, Clint Bellamy; back-Darin Ployhar, David Piper, Blake Knowles, Mitch Mathews,
Joe Papineau, coach Tony Pupo
By Rick Paullus
The Heppner Mustang boys’
JV basketball team ended an ex
cellent season under first year
coach Tony Pupo with a 15-2
record. The JVs got out to a big
lead against Weston-McEwen on
Friday, Feb. 19, and coasted to a
56-44 win. On Saturday, Feb. 20,
the Mustangs played a good game
to beat the Stanfield Tigers, 61-
54.
The Mustangs led 14-12 after
one but exploded for 23 points in
the second to take a 37-18 half
time lead. They increased the lead
to 50-28 after three and held on
for the 12 point win.
Michael McCabe hit four three-
pointers to lead the Mustangs with
20 points. Stefan Matheny was
also in double figures with 11
points. Joe Papineau and Blake
Knowles each chipped in with
eight points.
Statistics
Heppner 14-23-13-6 56
Weston-McEwen 12-6-10-14 44
Heppner Michael McCabe 6-4-5-20, Stefan
Matheny 3 5-6 11. Joe Paptneau 3 2-7 6. Blake
Knowles 4 0-2 8. Chris Bowman 2 0-0 4. David
Norton 1 1-6 3. Darin Ployhar 1 0-0 2. Clint
Bellamy 0 0-4 0. Chip Piper 0 0-3 0. Mitch
Matthews 0 0-2 0 20 12-35 56 Three-pointers
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McCabe (4).
Papineau scored 10 points for
the Mustangs in the first quarter
against Stanfield to lead the Ti
gers, 17-13, after one quarter. The
Mustangs used good defense in
the second quarter to increase
their lead to 31 -20 at halftime.
McCabe scored seven points,
including a three-pointer in the
third as the Mustangs increased
their lead to 46-33 after three
quarters. The Mustangs then held
on to take the 61-54 win.
The Mustangs were led by
McCabe and Papineau with 16
points each. M atheny and
Knowles each added eight points
for Heppner.
Statistics:
Heppner 17-14-15-15 61
Stanfield: 13-7-13-21 54
Heppner Papineau 8 0-1 16, McCabe 5 5-8
16. Knowles 4 0-1 8, Matheny 3 2-2 8, Bellamy
2 1 -2 5. Piper 12- 3 4, Matthews 0 2-4 2, Norton
1 0-0 2. Bowman, Ployhar 24 12-21 61 Three-
pointers McCabe
Parade entries coming in
Parade entries for the St.
Patrick’s Day Parade are coming
in and it's starting to taking
shape. But not to worry, there's
still time for you to get entered.
Parade categories include Irish
floats,
characters,
groups,
musical groups, cars, bikes and
more. If it's "Irish", there’s a
place in the parade.
Ribbons and cash prizes are
awarded for the lucky winners in
each category.
The parade will take place
Saturday, March 13, at 1 pm on
Mam Street starting at Green
Feed Store and going nearly to
Court Street Market.
For entry forms or more
information about the parade,
stop in at Van Marter & Kahl
Insurance or call Bob Kahl at
676-9113 days or 676-5422
evenings.
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